The final act was worth the admission fee alone. When his raking backhand rose
over the net and dipped past his incoming foe, Novak Djokovic had won
another bare-knuckle contest at Rod Laver Arena and decided to bare his
torso in celebration. Stanislas Wawrinka had gone where many had gone before
and many more will go in the future — off to the locker room to wonder what
more he could have done to bring down the world No 1.

Back in their hotels — if they managed, or wanted, to stay up and watch until
1.40 in the morning — those who